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   Message 228 of 274   
   Rob Swindell to Martin Kazmaier   
   ANSI Woes...   
   12 Aug 23 18:15:36   
   
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   PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Linux master/118133307 Jun 28 2023 GCC 12.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Linux master/99e8c77ca Jul 24 2023 GCC 12.2.0   
   COLS: 80   
   BBSID: VERT   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.104   
     Re: ANSI Woes...   
     By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Sat Aug 12 2023 04:35 pm   
      
    > I hired someone from insolvo to do some ansi art for me and it has been a   
    > less than thrilling experience.  First, I got an  HTML file with each   
    > character done one at a time, but it wasn't .ans so I couldn't use it.   
    > Then, he used mobius and pablodraw, but as soon as I view it with aciddraw   
    > or my   
    > bbs, I get a doubled image.  In pablodraw, it looks ok unless I turn the   
    > sauce off, in which case it looks funky.  The images are saved as .png at   
    > https://shsbbs.net/image1.png and https://shsbbs.net/image2.png .  Any   
    > ideas?   
      
   Looks to me like it's a 79 column ANSI (which is what you normally want) but   
   doesn't have a CRLF to force a new line on each row, so you end up with a   
   printing character in the 80th column (generally, a bad idea) and off-by-one   
   for each subsequent row.   
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                                               digital man (rob)   
      
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